This skill must be purchased with the designator Left, Right or for some characters, Both.

This skill may be bought multiple times, limited only by the character’s profession. All purchased levels apply to all Weapon skills the player has purchased for their character.

Example: If you have Weapon Damage(Left) +2 and Weapon Master: One Handed Weapons as well as the Bow skill you would add +2 damage to any of the weapons listed in those skills when using your left hand.

Each time this skill is purchased it allows the player to call an additional point of damage with their Weapon Skills For example, if the player purchased the Weapon Damage skill twice and had the Simple Weapons skill, they would add +2 damage when using a dagger, thus calling 3 normal, 1 base and +2 for this skill.

Furthermore, the Weapon Damage skill only applies to the hand chosen at time of purchase, thus right or left. Such that if a player has the skills to use two weapons and is fighting with two daggers, but has only purchased Weapon Damage +2 in the right hand and none in the left hand they would call 3 normal when striking with the right-hand dagger, but 1 normal when striking with the left. (1 base +2 right hand/ 1 base +0 left hand)

The Elven, Eldar, and Jal’Khandian races, the Duelist and Rogue professions, and the Order of the Azure Rose prestige group have the option to purchase the Weapon Damage skill in both hands simultaneously instead of left or right. These levels are added to any existing left or right hand damage as necessary and to determine the maximum number of times the Weapon Damage skill can be purchased. Strikes purchased for both hands can be used in either hand.

This skill qualifies as a prerequisite for the more advanced strike attacks such as Critical Strike.

A player may buy up each hand separately as they desire when using this skill such as buying +2 Weapon Damage in the right hand and +4 Weapon Damage in the left hand. Any Special Strikes would be governed by the number of Weapon Damage for that hand, and not over all Weapon Damage. Thus, in the above example the player could purchase 1 Parry for his/her right hand and 2 for the left hand, but would not yet qualify to purchase the Lethal Strike skill for either hand.

Finally, this skill only allows the players main hand damage to apply to any skill they have with a two-handed weapon. For example, in the case of the player above who has +2 damage in the right hand and +4 damage in the left hand, they would only be able to apply the damage from their main hand, in this case the left, to any skill they have such as Weapon Master – Bladed when using a two-handed weapon. (i.e. When using a normal two handed sword (base5) they would call 9 (nine) normal [5base +4 Weapon Damage(Left)])